Fear not, daughter of Zion: behold, your King comes, sitting on a donkey's colt.
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
Because all their kings had for the most part been an unjust and covetous kind of men, and had given them over to their enemies, and had perverted the people, and made them subject to their foes; Be of good courage, It says, this is not such an one, but meek and gentle; as is shown by the ass, for He entered not with an army in His train, but having an ass alone.
